June 9, 2000

Carol Gilligan to Divide Time Between NYU and Harvard; Anna Deavere Smith Leaves Stanford for NYU; Stanford's New Center for the Novel Lures a Director From Columbia U.

By SCOTT HELLER

A short-term teaching gig that turned very enticing might have led Carol Gilligan to leave Harvard University for a professorship at New York University. Instead, for the next two years at least, Ms. Gilligan will maintain ties with both institutions, keeping tenure at Harvard while teaching part time there and at N.Y.U.

"Right now, it's an ideal situation for me," says Ms. Gilligan, a professor of gender studies at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. She wants to be in Cambridge